Chapter 9 Important People

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Important People
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the state engineer who planned the Staunton to
Parkersburg turnpike

• Claudius Crozet

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West Virginias premier bridge builder

• Lemuel Chenoweth

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developed a steam-powered boat, which he launched
on the Potomac River in 1787

• James Rumsey

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demonstrated his boat, the Clermont, by traveling
150 miles from New York to Albany

• Robert Fulton

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helped finance the building of the first
steamboat to travel on the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers, the New Orleans. Has been called The
Father of Steamboat Trade.

• Nicholas Roosevelt

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owned and operated the Enterprise, made the first
trip upstream from New Orleans to Louisville,
built another boat, the Washington, from the
timbers of Wheelings Fort Henry.

• Henry Shreve

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a Revolutionary War officer, successfully ran a
steam locomotive on tracks in New Jersey.

• John Stevens

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his steam engine, the Tom Thumb. In 1830, was
challenged to race a stagecoach

• Peter Cooper

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the only surviving signer of the Declaration of
Independence, invited to lay the first rail of
the BO

• Charles Carroll